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BETA TICKER: 663,325 (+8,354 from last week)

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Warhammer was invented by a loaded of weirdos in England with patches on their jumpers and scruffy people with long hair.” ~Paul Barnett

BIG STORY OF THE WEEK: Mark Jacob’s WAR Beta Q&A over at Warhammer Herald. I’ve been pretty impressed with how much Mythic’s been communicating with the fans over the delay and beta process, and these seven questions, while nothing radically new, help to answer the multitude of closed beta, guild beta and open beta questions out there.

• GameBunny posted a six-minute WAR video for your enjoyment! Nice demon vs. human love there (not to be confused with demon on human love, which always results in a trip to the burn ward).
• GamePlayer put up their second part of an interview with Jeff Hickman.
• What is Warhammer? Watch this video by Paul Barnett to have all your wildest fantasies come true. Well, he answers the question at least. It’s funny!
• Greenskin reports on some uppity blog thing who thinks they’re hot stuff. Bah!
• Get your Warhammer: Condemned By Fire comic books on time by reading this helpful and exclamation point-laden post!
• As of 4/12/2008, Mark Jacobs confirmed that “We currently have invited about 8K people into the beta.”
• “Order vs. Destruction: Which Will You Pick?” Keen asks. Me? I say, why not pick both!
• Tobold asks “Will WAR have good PvE?” It’s the latest round of hot button issues in the WAR community, and The Greenskin’s answer is “You CAN have everything…”
• Ten Ton Hammer gives us yet another awesome video, this time of Keeps and Sieges PvP. Rev up those catapults, boyz, we need to lob another flaming piggie into the enemy HQ!
• “Meet the Hammerer” at MMORPG blog.
• Another video from the Paris event, this one showing off the Disciple of Khaine duking it out.
• The Warhammer Herald wants any New Yorkers — or visitors — to consider visiting Jeff and Paul at the New York Comic Con this weekend!
• Speaking of Marky Mark, Allakhazam posted their own interview with the frosty-capped WARlord!
• MMORPG has eight new pieces of concept art for your eyes to feast upon.
• Two new videos are posted over at CVG: one of general beta footage and one of the city leveling process.

This week’s odd “I’m not sure if this is news or not” comes from Warhammer Vault. I, like many others, use Google Reader to track numerous blogs and to alert me when Warhammer news hits. On early Tuesday afternoon, it flagged an article entitled “The Art of Saying Nothing During an Interview”, which started “Mark Jacobs has two sides. One side challenges people who accuse him of something false or speak erroneous ‘facts’ (and I do love reading…” The rest of this was concealed until after the jump, so I clicked the link and… there was nothing there. No article, no post, nothing. The link for the story went here.